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Use in varieties of Scots

ayr Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words21.9 25.8 27 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences7151 18 0 0 1 1
Number of authors17 12 3 1 1

Occurrences of ayr in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
s born in 1922 an educatit at Ayr Academie; he sairved wi the R on page 3

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
banner till, gin they reached Ayr, the* nummert seiven hunner s on page 26
holms an banks o the Watter o Ayr, juist doun the brae frae the on page 48
un by the cruiked banks o the Ayr that gied the place its name. on page 50
ill ye gie us a haun? ... The Ayr has drappt back efter the del on page 53
e thae shuils in the watter o Ayr, then slairie thaim weel wi m on page 54
Also on pages 55, 56, 59, 63, 70, 74, 78, 79
17 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
the indicator, an wir pullin ayr at a bleak petrol station wi on page 3

21 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
fae Ayr ah nicht ei did canter. on page 4

1 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
(OED), but it is in Scots, in Ayr, in fowerteen hunder an fifty on page 59

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
mily rail card an we'd go tae Ayr an Irvine an we'd play crazy on page 163

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
lt yer slider at Saltcoats or Ayr, on page 116

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
stranghauds i the Borders an Ayr, while takkin constituency sa
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
way, westwards tae Cumnock an Ayr.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
adow-heid farm by the water o Ayr. His supporters hud grown tae

@alistairdunn tweeted
ange a tyre on ma journey tae ayr(2013) search twitter

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ly cemetery here, and I'm fae Ayr too(2019) search twitter
@TheFyfie It's messages in Ayr(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
shae, Gala, Langholm, Biggar, Ayr an Edinburgh) and i use the t (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
feild, flude, forest, erth or ayr, or in the scroggis, or the b on page 56

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
t tae Clyde. I'd rether watch Ayr on page 93

10 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
fore wi his pal Lord Alfred o Ayr. He surveyed the landscape ab on page 88
gic?" whuspered Lord Alfred o Ayr. on page 89
a ain flunkey kens ye did! An Ayr an aa!" on page 91

6 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@RHanratty99 Nae in Ayr they dinna(2020) search twitter

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
On route ti ref Ayr v Boroughmuir #bluddylongjour(2012) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"I had wark in a bar in Ayr. It was right bae the boardin on page 4

1 matches

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